Foundations of Object-Oriented Programming

📋 Course Outline

1. Programming Paradigms and Procedural Programming
2. Limits of Procedural Programming
3. Object-Oriented Programming and Its Purpose
4. Classes, Objects, and Members
5. Core Principles of OOP
6. Binding and Message Passing
7. Benefits of Object-Oriented Programming

📖 1. Programming Paradigms and Procedural Programming

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Programming language : a language used to write instructions and tell a computer how to perform specific tasks
• Procedural programming : a programming approach in which a program is written as a sequence of steps or procedures to solve a problem and instructions execute from top to bottom

Real Example of Procedural Programming Language:

• The procedural sequence for making tea is:

  • boil water
  • add tea powder
  • add milk
  • add sugar
  • serve

📖 2. Limits of Procedural Programming

• The main limitations of procedural programming are:
  • poor code reusability
  • difficult error checking in large programs
  • dependent code
  • unsuitability for real-world applications
  • lack of data security
  • difficult maintenance of large programs